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Sixty anti-abortion rights billboards placed throughout Oakland in mid-June have created controversy and generated publicity for the groups that sponsored them. Now they’re coming down.

Maybe now we’ll finally get to find out where the high court’s newest justice, Sonia Sotomayor, really stands when it comes to whether the Second Amendment

Speaking of ousted United Nations deputy representative to Afghanistan Peter Galbraith, Galbraith was recently accused in a New York Times piece of promoting

Michelle Rhee and Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via flgov.com) Broward County pubic schools would consider operating charter schools in an effort to “stem a drop in enrollment spurred by a growing number of charter schools,” according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel .

In April, we ran a piece about how some Democrats had bowed to the wishes of the banking industry and delayed their credit card reforms until next year, even as

Bringing a little class to the NBA finals, thinkb4youspeak is running public service announcements during the games, with athletes, including Phoenix Suns star Grant Hill, letting sports fans know that saying “that’s so gay” or using words like “fag” and “queer” as pejoratives is just not OK. The GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) Sports Project is working with high schools and high school athletes around the country to educate kids on showing respect toward people of all sexual orientations.

This week, Campaign for Healthy Denver activists, dressed in infectious disease masks, turned in 12,000 petition signatures for a ballot initiative that would give paid sick days to Denver workers. The group has collected three times the nearly 4000 signatures required and the Denver City Clerk now has 25 days to certify them

A group of Democrats in the U.S. Senate have written to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking that the State Department extend their review of the Keystone XL pipeline project.

That’s what the Dallas Voice wants to know after a petition calling on Gold’s Gym to stop supporting anti-gay politicians started gathering signatures and media

Jake Tapper reports from the White House press briefing today: “One of the very first things that Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula used as a recruiting tool

Washington is initiating a program to help the unemployed stay in their homes: Qualified applicants will get zero-interest loans of up to $50,000 for two years

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who has been in the news lately for staking out anti-Obama stances on immigration and health care reform, admitted to

Senate Democrats are piecing together another stimulus bill designed to tackle the ongoing unemployment crisis, but if the reports coming out of Capitol Hill

Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, who’s leading a virtual march on Washington this week to push his energy plan, participated in a Center for American

President George W. Bush, the Treasury Dept., the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. are all out in force today, as they should be. You own

Eight years after it was passed, the USA Patriot Act remains among the most controversial pieces of counterterrorism legislation in the so-called “war on terror.”

A recent Salon article exploring the “surprisingly warm” relationship between Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the Muslim community leans on the Republican

Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) tonight became the second incumbent in a week to be ousted by his own party, losing to state Sen. Mike Oliverio 56-44 percent in

A crop of Tea Party candidates have been shaking up primaries and special election contests this cycle. But how have they actually fared in the contests that